A SWAT team that was at the La Vida Nueva apartment complex at Kathryn and Columbia in connection with at least one Wednesday slaying stood down with no arrests, police said.

Police said the team had been at the location since about 6:45 a.m. Thursday. Police said officers disengaged the SWAT team shortly before noon after determining that the persons of interest were not at the complex. Police searched two different apartment units looking for a suspect and took away a number of people for questioning.

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Police are not releasing the name of the suspect.

APD spokesman John Walsh said the SWAT team was called in connection with a slaying at San Mateo Boulevard and Mountain Road Wednesday afternoon, but the complex is the same location where a body was found later Wednesday evening.

Walsh said police did not know yet if there was a connection between the two incidents.

Albuquerque police said officers found a 20 year-old-male suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in a parking lot at Mountain Road and San Mateo Boulevard just before 3 p.m. Wednesday. The victim was taken to University of New Mexico hospital with gunshot wounds to the hand, chest and face. He died a short time later.

Later Wednesday evening, police said a man's body was found lying on a slab of concrete in the apartment complex on the 1300 bock of Columbia Drive in southeast Albuquerque at about 7:15 p.m.

The man appeared to have been shot in the head three times, police said.

No arrests in either case have been made so far.

Police are asking people with any information either incident to call 242-COPS.